New here..., O and some more third gens. Options

[Toxic Iroc]

Just to let everyone know Shlomo has been trying to post for like 4 days and couldn't get on. So its a remarkable occasion that hes online. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/1poke.gif)

Hey! it hasnt been 4 days....its been 3!

[trackbird]

hey im new here names shlomo im gettin into this with mike "ssgtcarroll" i got an 87 iroc with a 350 t-top yes a t-top i have some koni yellows and some pro kit on the way { should be in the mail} im wanting to know if this will fit on to the zo6 motor sport rims well and if so what size spacers do i need i would liek to run 17x9.5 with some 275's and will be goin with some sub frame conectors and some other mods

my car is pretyy much stock beside a soon to come butiful 3' exhust , rebuilt trans,rear end rebuil, dis,wires plugs,steerin wheel radio, air filter

and tryin to lear alot more from everyone and what not peace

~shlomo~

Just to let everyone know Shlomo has been trying to post for like 4 days and couldn't get on. So its a remarkable occasion that hes online. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/1poke.gif)

I guess I can get rid of his other username? I just figured he hadn't checked his mail or you'd pm me if he had problems. I can manually approve accounts and I used to do just that. I think that's how the last hacker got in, so I've quit doing that without talking to someone first.

[PF Flyer]

Jon D/Trackbird - the Hyperfest is a full day of activities based around the 'Tuner' cars. They have a midway, bands, entertainment, US Drift 101 classes, drifting, hot laps and a roll over contest.

The contest is you bring some POS car that still runs, put in some sort of rollbar, gut the interior and remove the glass, etc, etc. I'm sure there are rules for this somewhere, I've just not been interested enough to go find them. As an instructor, I'm usually too busy or tired to go watch any of the other activities.

Then they race down 'the Chute' towards 'the Carousel' (main circuit at Summit Pt) and hit a ramp and try to roll the car the most number of times. I do know you can't use an air cannon to assist your roll over. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

[SSgt. Carroll]

Doesn't that mess up the track?

[AndyJ]

I do know you can't use an air cannon to assist your roll over. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Good lord,

What do you smoke when you do this? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

[trackbird]

Jon D/Trackbird - the Hyperfest is a full day of activities based around the 'Tuner' cars.

I'm aware. My mother in law works at the track, remember? And, I was at a hyperfest at one of the tracks we were at with the AIX car (now AV8SS), it's been years. I wasn't really impressed then, and nothing has changed...... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif)

Though the roll over contest seems just amusing enough to take a shot at it..... Where else can you crash a car on purpose?

[CrashTestDummy]

As others have said, go slowly with the parts replacement. Work on seat time first, and then start working in parts that make sense. The best thing you can to with a 3rd Gen, though is get the chassis stiffer. If the classes you plan to run in allow it, get some SFCs and install the roll cage so that it helps stiffen the car. They don't call them 'flexible flyers' for nothing. :-) That stiffer chassis will protect the body parts (fewer cracks between the window and hatch), and allow all future mods to work better.

Pay close attention as to how the part you are installing now will interact/interfere with future mods. I'm right now trying to figure out how I'm going to work my next exhaust system in around the SFCs I chose to install. I think I just about have it worked out, but it has meant some time just laying under the car and thinking about how things would fit together.

You may want to double-think about front coil-overs. With the strut front end, you are limited to wheel width and backspace on that car. Most coilovers will only hurt that situation. I am running 16" wheels with 5" backspace. I can go another 1/4", maybe, because of the Koni struts. I don't think I could use these wheels with COs. You can put a 12" wide wheel almost completely under the back of the car. It is the front that is the problem.

[SSgt. Carroll]

I will be signing up for FATT soon at summit. You guys think I should take my RS 5.0 to that since its slower (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) or should I go ahead and take my Z28?

I understand what you guys are saying but I have about 1000 a month that I set aside to spend on what makes me happy and thats my cars. So I need ideas where to start. Like what tires you guys have experiance with? Shock springs, lca, etc. like asked before. I just want to start somewhere.

[CMC #37]

I will be signing up for FATT soon at summit. You guys think I should take my RS 5.0 to that since its slower (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) or should I go ahead and take my Z28?

I understand what you guys are saying but I have about 1000 a month that I set aside to spend on what makes me happy and thats my cars. So I need ideas where to start. Like what tires you guys have experiance with? Shock springs, lca, etc. like asked before. I just want to start somewhere.

Slower is always better for beginner, fast cars will get you in trouble faster! With a slow car you may have a chance to correct. Your $ will go fast...do a search on these things you are interested in and you'll get lots of info. What you don't get or need clarification on we are here to help ya!

[PF Flyer]

... 'seat time' is the best mod you can do for a car. If the 5.0 is mostly stock and, with a 'lil help, be able to handle almost 2 hours on track, then take it to get started with. Then you can work the Camaro and get it done right the first time.


Here a video link to One Lap at Summit

This post has been edited by PF Flyer: Jul 11 2006, 02:08 AM

[SSgt. Carroll]

... 'seat time' is the best mod you can do for a car. If the 5.0 is mostly stock and, with a 'lil help, be able to handle almost 2 hours on track, then take it to get started with. Then you can work the Camaro and get it done right the first time.


Here a video link to One Lap at Summit

I probaly abuse that RS more on the street then I would at the track. You may find that hard to beleive but its true. Its not uncommon for the brakes to be pouring smoke, power steering boiling over, t-tops flying off, bent 16 z28 wheels (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif) lol.

This post has been edited by SSgt. Carroll: Jul 11 2006, 12:33 PM

[CMC #37]

... 'seat time' is the best mod you can do for a car. If the 5.0 is mostly stock and, with a 'lil help, be able to handle almost 2 hours on track, then take it to get started with. Then you can work the Camaro and get it done right the first time.


Here a video link to One Lap at Summit

I probaly abuse that RS more on the street then I would at the track. You may find that hard to beleive but its true. Its not uncommon for the brakes to be pouring smoke, power steering boiling over, t-tops flying off, bent 16 z28 wheels (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif) lol.

You need to get to a track fast before you 1) Hurt yourself and/or someone else 2) Get in trouble with the law. 3) Don't survive your teens. For a teenager, I don't find this hard to believe unless you are completely joking! All of us did dum stuff - hopefully a word to the wise will get in. I can't imagine the kind of driving one would do to get a 3rd gen to puke PS fluid on the street, it is hard enough to get the stock ps to do this on the track. The t-tops flying off, well, that has nothing to do with driving, althought folks who tend to forget to lock 'em or put them in place properly tend to keep doing it. Kind of an expensive brain fart!

If you trash your car on the track it will not last long there either. The folks who track here drive our cars hard, however, it is not abuse, especially in the learning stages. There are common things that we beef up the cars to make then withstand the limits we push them to on the track. My hat is off to the stock version, you can go a long way with that before you can really benefit from mods. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'd run a track friendly brake pad after running the stock pad the first day, then I would not change much else for the new few times assuming your car is in good working condition.

[SSgt. Carroll]

I don't purposly do those things. I had air in the lines on my brakes. Power steering for some reason on a really hot day last year was just boiling over, and my wheels are from my mother driving in and thinking she can floor it on a turn in gravel. So most likely the car gets more abused in street driving then race if you get what I am saying now.

Every once in a while I will push the car on backroads that see no traffic and have no houses around but I guess we all have.

This post has been edited by SSgt. Carroll: Jul 11 2006, 04:05 PM

[CMC #37]

I don't purposly do those things. I had air in the lines on my brakes. Power steering for some reason on a really hot day last year was just boiling over, and my wheels are from my mother driving in and thinking she can floor it on a turn in gravel. So most likely the car gets more abused in street driving then race if you get what I am saying now.

Every once in a while I will push the car on backroads that see no traffic and have no houses around but I guess we all have.

Good, I was hoping you weren't a crazy nut! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I wondered if you had big potholes bending your wheels...my family in Montana has car-sized ones up near Glacier National Park where they live!

[SSgt. Carroll]

Well I upgraded you could say:

http://www.customdoorsandhardware.com/mycr...wstuff/cam1.JPG

[John_D.]

Nice. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

(somehow I missed this thread from July 6 until now...)